Double Negative Out Now via Sub Pop

Sep 14, 2018By Christopher Roberts

Low released a new album, Double Negative, today via Sub Pop and it's our Album of the Week. Double Negative is the follow-up to 2015's Ones and Sixes. A press release announcing the album described Double Negative as Low's "most brazen, abrasive (and, paradoxically, most empowering) album." In our review of Double Negative, our writer Adam Turner-Heffer calls the album "their most inventive yet." More

Songs You Make At Night Out Now via Full Time Hobby

Aug 24, 2018By Christopher Roberts

Tunng released a new album, Songs You Make At Night, today via Full Time Hobby. It's the first album with the original lineup (including founding members Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay) since 2007's Good Arrows. While we are not doing a full-on Album of the Week post on it, we wanted to acknowledge it as this week's Album of the Week. More

I'm All Ears Out Now via Transgressive

Jun 29, 2018By Michael Watkins

On their debut album, it would have been easy to see Let's Eat Grandma's duo of Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth as somewhat of a novelty. Not in the traditional sense of a jokey, one-hit wonder novelty act, as they lacked the commercial appeal. More

Heaven and Earth Out Now via Young Turks

Jun 22, 2018By Adam Turner-Heffer

There is an interesting debate going on within the Jazz world about Kamasi Washington, the current crossover wunderkind who is achieving major attention from more traditionally "indie-rock" crowds. On the one hand, from his work with Kendrick Lamar and the Brainfeeder label, he is bringing a wider audience to jazz, a genre that has historically gone misunderstood or mistrusted. More

Hope Downs Out Now via Sub Pop

Jun 15, 2018By Adam Turner-Heffer

After last year's excellent EP The French Press, young Melbournians Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have amassed quite the deal of hype. And justifiably so, the title track in particular went down as of the best tracks of 2017, excelling a considerable amount of excitement towards their first full length, when it comes. More

Lush Out Now via Matador

Jun 08, 2018By Michael Watkins

In Lindsey Jordan's short time as Snail Mail, the 18-year-old has cultivated an assured but dedicated following. Harking back to her '90s indie rock predecessors such as Liz Phair, Fiona Apple, and even further back to the likes of The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde, she offers guitar-centerd songs that don't whine or moan or even look for a nostalgia in a past that she hasn't even lived-as seems to be one of the millennial trends nowadays-but find beauty in the mundane and the small details, the likes of which has been done as successfully by only a handful of her contemporaries in recent years. More

In the now four years since her double EP ASea of Split Peas announced Courtney Barnett as a force to be reckoned with in the indie singer/songwriter sphere, there has been little-to-no let up in the proficiency of this Australian 30-year-old. More

World’s Strongest Man Out Now via Hot Fruit/Caroline International

May 04, 2018By Ian Rushbury

World's Strongest Manis a ride down the road less travelled for former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes. If you were expecting endless variations on a Supergrass theme, then you'll be slightly confused and annoyed by his third solo record. The tunes are still very much intact and will eat into your brain and live there for days, but the approach is a little, shall we say, esoteric. More

New Material Out Now via Jagjaguwar

Mar 23, 2018By Adam Turner-Heffer

Those looking for a return to Viet Cong, look away now. At this point it might just be easier to think of Preoccupations as a different band, as their latest album New Materialshares a lot more in common with the first, self-titled Preoccupations album than their debut under their former name. Luckily, this is no bad thing, even if different, as Preoccupations have yet again created a gothy, atmospheric post-punk cracker. More

Now Only Out Now via P.W. Elverum & Sun

Mar 16, 2018By Michael James Hall

This week's album of the week serves as a follow-up to the most stark, moving and genuinely heartbreaking records of last year, Mount Eerie's A Crow Looked At Me. Charting Phil Elverum's immediate situation and emotional response to the death of his wife Geneviève in 2016, not long after the birth of the couple's only child, a daughter, the album was a brutally honest document of death and grief delivered with remarkable, soft, melodic directness. More

Cocoa Sugar Out Now via Ninja Tune

Mar 09, 2018By Lee Adcock

For this week's album of the week, we could begin in a tired tirade on how we should forefront any dialogue on resistance, and especially from people of color. And that's true, but to label Cocoa Sugar as "protest music" would overlook the electrified soul of Young Fathers that swerves in a love-drunk stupor through their 10-year output. More

Historian Out Now via Matador

Mar 02, 2018By Lee Adcock

Debate the credibility of the term "indie" all you want-but even in today's landscape of monolithic labels and bustling support crews, we still expect the independent artist to follow their own vision. To say, then, that rising star Lucy Dacus may have almost single-handedly penned a cinematic masterpiece in Historian shouldn't surprise you that much. More

Visions of a Life Out Now via Dirty Hit/RCA

Sep 29, 2017By Scott Dransfield

Brandon Flowers, of The Killers fame, was recently lambasted in some indie-blog circles for claiming in a recent interview with Noisey that rock bands haven't gained a commercial traction comparable to their own lately because there "hasn't been anybody good enough." More

V Out Now via Wolftone/Caroline

Sep 22, 2017By Christopher Roberts

The Horrors released their fifth album, the fittingly titled V, today via Wolftone/Caroline. Usually for our Album of the Week posts we have an especially written detailed write up of why the album is the week's best, but these week various factors prevented us from pulling that off. More

Sleep Well Beast Out Now via 4AD

Sep 08, 2017By Billy Hamilton

The National is The National is The National. After 18 years and six albums, the Ohio spawned ensemble make a sound you can spot a mile off: that rich rumble of Matt Berninger's moribund baritone; those quivering, tear-duct moistening laments; the spiralling weaves of delicate guitar. More

American Dream Out Now via Columbia/DFA

Sep 01, 2017By Will Butler

When LCD Soundsystem announced their official return at Christmas 2015, more people were upset about it than you'd think. Having left us at their prime, James Murphy's bohemian brigade released an grandiose but heart-warming final concert movie called Shut Up and Play the Hits. More

Painted Ruins Out Now via RCA

Aug 18, 2017By Ryan Meaney

The kaleidoscopic sound the four members of Grizzly Bear create is a juxtaposition unto itself. It is Earth shatteringly loud yet serene and tranquil. It speaks on the larger human psyche while observing the minutia of everyday life. More

Cage Tropical Out Now via Slumberland/Grey Market

Aug 11, 2017By Matthew Berlyant

If anyone expects a complete reinvention from Frankie Rose following a four-year absence (her last album being 2013's Herein Wild, her only record for Fat Possum), especially given that this is a return after a series of personal setbacks sent her back to Brooklyn after a stint in her native Los Angeles, they'll be disappointed. More

Earl Grey Out Now via Moshi Moshi

Aug 04, 2017By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Londoners Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell, and Sophie Moss were 16 years old when they formed Girl Ray and recorded their first single, "Trouble." They're still just 19. Being a teenager is about feeling every emotion right down to the core and crowding round your friends to sink into these feelings with every might, because who knows? They might just consume you. More

Universal High Out Today via Marathon Artists

Jul 21, 2017By Will Butler

The state of U.K. indie in the early 2010s had an atmosphere of light revolution. The fallout from the 2006 wave of Arctic Monkeys-inspired bands had cleared and a new dawn had arrived for the alternative youth of the U.K. More